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(Film "Broadway Melody of 1938) BD 5263 My Cabin of Dreams-F.T. (V.R. by Denny Dennis)
So rare-F.T., Vocal Refrain by Barry Cray!
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How much more delightful, how much safer and secure the world and mankind would be if nations and men could learn the lesson of minding their own bust.
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'BREATHE
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AVE you ever had
an ancesthetic,
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WHAT THEY SAY
THAT'S do
you remember what you thought about while. you were unconscious?
Was your mind just dead? Or did you dream, and, if no, was it a pleasant dream or a night- mare?
I am prepared to be that ir you have ever had gas at the dentist's you told the anaesthe- tist afterwards that you had never "realy gone off."
People nearly always say that after laughing gas." And it is nearly always (though not in- variably) untrue.
TO YOU. THIS ARTICLE TELLS
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE-
Laughing Gas
A man Here is an example. I am going to tell them what goes on in their minds and bodies told me once that when having a By the way, when you came while the dentist takes out the tooth out under gas he dreamed from the gas did you tooth-or the surgeon the ap- that he was going to be one of the most famous men who have ever lived-a-sort of Hitler, pendix.
mares; laughing gas makes you You think you have been laugh. awake the whole time, your con- sciousness has been broken for round such a short time. Result: You anxiously inquire "if you'd said anything?" I shouldn't be sur- believe you have never been prised if you did. So many peo- asleep, and nothing any one can
ple are afraid they have given say will convince you that you
away their secrets.
But you needn't worry. ple don't talk under gas.
have.
Even if you have had a dream under gas you probably link it on to what you were thinking about before you went to sleep.
in
FUNNY
Peo-
[
WH
And yet, what a sorry that it picks out some particular to afterwards in your bed again, are going to have.
He began to count, and before he reached nine he heard a volce say, "Take a sip of this and rinse out your mouth."
Dreamers under gas are very
when we
WHATEVER anaesthe- Mussolini, and emperor of the
tie you have, it will world rolled into one.
In his dream he was very plea. cut off all communication be- tween your mind and your volun- sed with himself, and told me tary muscles. You will be as that he wanted to make quite limp as a rag doll-and that is certain of the truth of this pro. thing
how just how the operator wants you phecy. So he asked for some proof, and was told that if he frightened some peo- to be.
The way you will behave un- heard any one speak before he IT is pretty obvious why ple are of losing consciousness
it is called "laughing they seem to dread it more than der an anaesthetic has been so had counted ten, it would be a
carefully worked out that any sure sign. an operation.
to do just gas," though no one knows why
Perhaps in the old days, when body can be made people,so often, laugh when they chloroform was dangerous and what the doctors want him to first come round. But it is ether made you sick, Laking an
Of course, there are various fact that quite a large percen-
is a choice of a dozen or more tage of people find something anaesthetic was about the worst degrees of anaesthesia, and there
part of the whole business.
(or combination of very funny in their dreams un-
But things are very different drugs der nitrous-oxide, and nothing whatever amusing under other now that they give you a prick drugs); the anaesthetist decides often thoroughly pleased with the arm-probably while what he will give you when he themselves. I believe the ex- has heard what operation you planation of this is that we leave you're still in bed-and you come
our cares behind us anaesthetics.
The explanation probably is
Now about your mind part with consciousness. cells in your brain.
But people still dread "going off." Some are afraid of what when they have got you on the Different drugs produce dif- will be done to them while they idea at once that you are going operating-table. Get rid of the ferent kinds of dreams. Opium are unconscious. Some are always gives pleasant dreams; afraid of unconsciousness itself, belladonna gives you night- and some think that they are go-
ing to die. the old beliefs? Where should | side is the true "revolution."
The first group must have con- Infidence in their doctors. Then we have arrived without the any event the original revolution they will have nothing to fear
the (Film The Singing Marine" philosophers and scientists, such erred in its dealings with
on that score, The third group men who doubted that the world minority. King and Queen and can take it from me that the was flat? Yes, even the bloody Royal Family retired from the risk of death under an anaesthe- That tic is rather less than the risk Cromwells, the Dantons, the scene to avoid bloodshed.
is admitted by both sides. But every one takes when crossing Washingtons, in their different bloodshed came, with blame on an arterial road.
But we are never surprised in spheres," "with their different both sides, and it might have
But the people in the second have a dream which tries to ex- dreams, so he took it all for*** views, accomplished what their been avoided. The reformers group are often the most difficult plain the sensations you have granted; not even when both progeny call progress. That is were too radical; they were not to convince that there is nothing as you come round, and in this kings at once asked his advice on the test of true reform, then-progressive. They failed; how to worry about when they are case the dream will only have an important matter of state did
their going to have an anaesthetic. occupied a fraction of a second. he feel the least bit astonished. Progress. And progress is im- utterly, how tragically
bloodsoaked, pitiful country now
The reason why you never provement.
bears witness.
feel surprised in your dreams is because all your critical powers reside in your conscious mind. And your dreams are made up of experiences which the deepor layers of your mind have stored.
You need'nt have kept it a secret-Waitz
(Both by Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra)
BD-5252 Night over Shanghai-F.T.
BD-5253
1 hum a Waltz-Waltz (Film-This is my affair")
(Orlando & His Orchestra).
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pass if the lesson were read too literally. Where should civilian- tion have arrived had it not been for meddlesome people like the prophets and founders of new religions who dared to question
domestic affairs,
.
dream. This is an in-
HERE is another curious to talk, or swear, or say naughty stance of the way a dream ex- words, because you are not.
aggerates real life, much as a Neither are you going to caricature. does. A man dream- struggle, or even be restless. ed that he was at Buckingham You are going to have a dream Palace, having a talk to King probably more than one-but, Edward VII, and King George V. curiously enough, it
and both were kings. certain that it will be a pleasant
dream.
is almost
His mind, you see, was deter- mined that he should make no mistake as to the high soclety In IF the anaesthetic is which he found himself.
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short one, you may
A PUZZLED SASSENÄCH
ter), like the little folk still do in the north of England, we would get the thrill of our lives.
But wo are getting reconelled, or nearly so!
Listen to part of a typical day in the home of a Sassenach, exiled in Scotland;-
I rise from "my bed". ("bed"
There is a detonator which, so to speak, fires of the dream, and it is usually something which has happened to you recently.
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Spain's revolution was its own Very often reformers are ill-
affair, however. No matter advised, unbalanced people, and what had been the outcome, the for that reason fail. Very often intervention by other nations,| their plans and revolts are abor- officially or unofficially cannot tive, and must be for their very be condoned. The moment such nature. They are preordained tampering occurs the equanim-"I WANT out! i want out!" My small four-years-old ity of the world is, distürbed, daughter, not a drop of Scottish to failure because, basically,
There are laws, written and un-blood in her veins (but none the they are not progressive, guar-written, which must be observed better for that, let me hasten to antee no improvement. Revoluif mankind would avoid chaos, add), repeated the phrase over and tion may be excusable; but never ruin and retrogradation. One over ngala,
Something had gone wrong.
Of course, some of the the wholesale destruction of the of the most important is that
pictures you see when: good with the evil of a system, of minding one's own business, Misdemeanours are common in her
her young life, but this time would be sufficient in England, or you are unconscious are deter- of a party; of a creed. Inter-none the less essential because must have been serious, for her even the cruder "get up.") Then 1mined by what is going on in
it is not written anywhere but mother. had spoken. Four-years- take my bath (I heard somebody your body. The vention by one nation in the in some well-thumbed documents old was confined to barracks, and
best-known affairs of another, in the inter-still cherished by a disillusioned all the pleadings and banging of describe it as a "dook" the other example is the uncomfortable.
dreas, my first
nightmare, dream known as a nal, private business of another League of Nations. It is the tiny clenched fists on the other side day.) After that
garment, of course, being a semmit people, can no more be condoned nature of man that he will re-jof the bedroom door were of no
(vest.) I see there are no coals which happens because your not very than would the intervention of sist intervention in a neighbour's avail. So she opened wide the (cont) in the pail (bucket), only digestion is itself an individual in his neighbour's | family quarrels if he is fair-pipes and, fortissimo, yelled again,dross (stock.) There is no wood to happy at the time.
start the fire, so out I go Into the You see, your mind must have minded, and if there is some "I want out!"
And that set me thinking. If. garden and chop some kindlinga an explanation of the sensation chance of his neighbour settling
which arises in the body. That In the uprising of General the affair reasonably well and two years ago, I hadn't been on the (chips.) My the time there is
"short leat" for my present job in cheery blaze in the grate, the Franco's Insurgents in Spain belag the better for the com- Edinburgh, she would have been kettle starts boiling, and it time is why the man who fell asleep promise. But the moment some shouting, "I want to GO out!" for me to infuse (brew) the tea. with a tight collar round his. the world has an instance of a third party bursts in upon the And that reminds me again. Why My wife lays (sets) the table, fret neck dreamed that he was being party with strong convictions scene particularly if his mo- "short leet?" We called it short of all bringing a clean cloth out of hanged.
The deeper the degree of un- endeavouring, by force, to retain tives are questionable the fair-list in England. Why the differ- the press (cupboard.)
Trade Jargon...
consciousness, the Icss will sen- institutions which an apparent minded, law-abiding man
During breakfast the processionsations reach that part of the majority had sought to destroy, moved to counter-intervention.
And so it goes. - none too gently, but in the way
There are still nations which us the way. While her cousins in of tradesmen begins. The first brain which registers them and It is just as well this is 80. of revolutionaries. It may be
"toffees," sho demands and I hear my better half say argued that both Loyalist and have not learned the lesson of England go into a shop for just knock means the flesher (butcher), then explains them by a dream..
minding their
affairs. plain
"sweetles," We stared yesterday "Call it hough if you want, I'm otherwise every operation would Insurgent parties can be classi-Japan's action in China has had fied as revolutionaries. For the immediate and predictable. re- and gave it up as a bad job when going to stick to the name I've al- be accompanied by a nightmare, she strade in with the announce-ways known-ahin beef." Five and we know that this doesn't
happen. official Government of Spain is sults. The Brussels Conferencement. "Quick, quick. There's a minutes later I hear her making the Rusala's now obvious bonnie wee cow in the stores win- I greengrocer the price of oranges. unquestionably made up of such was one.
over the Far Eastern dow, with a wee, wee bell round its!""Apennies each," comes the reply. a type, its leaders having caused concern
I presume he means, that they are unconsciousness is always ac the overthrow of the monarchy, altuation is another. The in-neck."
two penny. Then, "A forpit companied by dreams. It is that Russia would A Day's Round timation
(3 e) of potatoes, you said, thought that it usunily la; but and having attempted to reform withdraw support from Spain is
An ad- Mistress (Mrs.)" Another knock. we do know that very often the. the entire system of Govern-significant to any but those who ment, to say nothing of the are blinded by arrogance and vertisement for somebody's tinned This time, plumber, complete with dream is completely wiped out
gained. Church. The strange paradox ambition. There are sufficient milk, and certainly it was a nice mate. He has come, so he says, to the moment consciousness is re-
little bell round its neck. Explain, So i goes on. By this time I am of a revolutionary party calling incidents of precedent to allow looking cow, and it had a little, sort (mend) the leaking tap. the counter-revolutionary party the warning, if not the prognos- too, why she comes in after a long on the way to the cffice, but I rebels is understandable, but it tication, that Russia is conten- hectic scamper, In the garden, visualise the baker selling my wife plating counter-intervention in realising that lunch time is for dia-
know.) But certainly the first is an academic, if somewhat the affairs of her ill-used neight"|tant, asks for "a piece." If she de, a half losf (why "hair" I don't]
(Continued on Page 5) useless point of argument which ́bour..........
own
is ence?
But there's so much difference, The wee rebel has started to show
I saw the effigy later.
manded" butty" (bread and but-
Of course, we don't know that
Anthony
Weymouth